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The following topics are dealt with: fuzzy system identification and control; intelligent transportation systems; informationally structured space; face and skin biometrics; particle swarm optimization; intelligent robotics; human centered multimodal data mining; machine learning techniques; fingerprint biometrics; driver behavior detection and vehicle vision systems; power system short-term forecasting; power system estimation; power system prediction; predictive modeling; pattern clustering; disease diagnosis and rehabilitation; systemic risk & sentiment analysis & macroeconomic modeling; fuzzy logic; ant colony optimization; nature-inspired antenna systems; eHealth and therapy; pattern classification; differential evolutionary computation; demand response; portfolio optimization & hedging strategies & Bitcoin market; and partially supervised learning.